[Samba] problem with ldap backend

Cornelius Weiss list at von-und-zu-weiss.de
Mon Jan 2 17:55:31 GMT 2006


Hi Vijay,

tnx for your replay, 

with getent passwd and getent groups i see all users and groups.
The usermanager on windows-machines also sees the groups and knows which user 
is in wich group,  so this part seems to be working.

cu
cornelius

Am Montag, 2. Januar 2006 18:26 schrieb Vijay Avarachen:
> Can you confirm that your system recognizes the 'cad' group (which I assume
> is in LDAP and not in local /etc/groups)?  Run 'getent group cad'.  What is
> the output of this command?  If you get an error, then you need to fix that
> first (check your nsswitch.conf, /etc/ldap.conf and /etc/openldap/ldap.conf
> files and make sure you can run manual queries against your ldap server).
>
> On 1/2/06, Cornelius Weiss <nelius at von-und-zu-weiss.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > with ldap-backend, i can't set permission for shares groupwise.
> >
> > This is my smb.conf for a share:
> >
> > [cad]
> >   comment = STT CAD
> >   path = /home/data/cad
> >   readonly = yes
> >   browseable = yes
> >   valid users = @cad
> >   write list = @cad
> >   force group = cad
> >   create mask = 0664
> >   directory mask = 0775
> >
> > But this isn't working. no user of the group cad can read this share.
> > Moreover, it seems that "some" other userser which are not in the cad
> > group
> > can read this share, but i wasn't able to reproduce this truly. Seems to
> > be
> > some random generator behind :-)
> >
> > I really have no idea whats going wrong. Could this be a bug of samba?
> > Anybody an idea?
> >
> > cu
> > cornelius
> >
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